Originally posted by Calinou
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Taking *away* firmware-loading capability is an antifeature, work was done to deliberately make it harder for somone to do something freely (requiring that someone figure out how to undo the change and recompile themselves). Running a libre kernel sounds like more of a status symbol for those who are able to manage with it.
Giving someone a GNU/Linux sampler with this crippled kernel sounds like it would be really poor in persuading users of the 100% non-free OS to start migrating over to F/OSS.
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